Raro assur- git Hesiodus, magnaque pars ejus in nominibus est occu- pata ;
tamen utiles circa praecepta sententiae lenitasque ver- borum et compositionis
probabilis, daturque ei palnia in illo medio genere dicendi." The Homeric hymns,
a series of compositions in praise of the gods, and probably of a date a little later
than the age of Hesiod, seem to bridge over the passage from the epic and
heroic poetry to the lyrical. The steps of the transition may even be in some
measure traced, ...

The Chinese bamboo flourishes in great beauty ; rice, ttie Cape olive, and the
palnia Christi. Further south, on the border of the Ilex and Breede rivers, are
some excellent meadows, well adapted for the growth of corn ; no part of the
colony is better watered. South of this is Zoek Milk, or Sweet Milk's Valley,
containing the meritorious establishment of the Moravians, or Hernuiiters as they
were originally called, whose kind offices towards the poor oppressed aborigines
of the country ...